People Of Substance May Sin Without Being

The Multitude Will Hardly Believe The Excessive Force Of Education, And In The Difference Of Modesty Between Men And Women, Ascribe That To Nature, Which Is Altogether Owing To Early Instruction: Miss Is Scarce Three Years Old, But She's Spoke To Every Day To Hide Her Leg, And Rebuked In Good Earnest If She Shows It; Whilst Little Master At The Same Age Is Bid To Take Up His Coats, And Piss Like A Man.

People Of Substance May Sin Without Being Exposed For Their Stolen Pleasure; But Servants And The Poorer Sort Of Women Have Seldom An Opportunity Of Concealing A Big Belly, Or At Least The Consequences Of It.

What A Vast Traffick Is Drove, What A Variety Of Labour Is Performed In The World To The Maintenance Of Thousands Of Families That Altogether Depend On Two Silly If Not Odious Customs; The Taking Of Snuff And Smoking Of Tobacco; Both Which It Is Certain Do Infinitely More Hurt Than Good To Those That Are Addicted To Them!

I Don't Believe That There Is A Human Creature In His Senses, Arrived To Maturity, That At Some Time Or Other Has Not Been Carried Away By This Passion (sc. Envy) In Good Earnest; Yet I Never Met With Any One Who Dared Own He Was Guilty Of It But In Jest.

They That Examine Into The Nature Of Man, Abstract From Art And Education, May Observe, That What Renders Him A Sociable Animal, Consists Not In His Desire Of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, And Other Graces Of A Fair Outside; But That His Vilest And Most Hateful Qualities Are The Most Necessary Accomplishments To Fit Him For The Largest, And, According To The World, The Happiest And Most Flourishing Societies.